From noncoding variant to phenotype via SORT1 at the 1p13 cholesterol locus.

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Published in Nature on August 05, 2010

Authors

Kiran Musunuru1, Alanna Strong, Maria Frank-Kamenetsky, Noemi E Lee, Tim Ahfeldt, Katherine V Sachs, Xiaoyu Li, Hui Li, Nicolas Kuperwasser, Vera M Ruda, James P Pirruccello, Brian Muchmore, Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Jennifer L Hall, Eric E Schadt, Carlos R Morales, Sissel Lund-Katz, Michael C Phillips, Jamie Wong, William Cantley, Timothy Racie, Kenechi G Ejebe, Marju Orho-Melander, Olle Melander, Victor Koteliansky, Kevin Fitzgerald, Ronald M Krauss, Chad A Cowan, Sekar Kathiresan, Daniel J Rader

Author Affiliations

1: Cardiovascular Research Center and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.

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